A site worth checking into

Here’s a site you’ll enjoy looking into if you’re a big fan of folklore, mythology and mysteries of Ireland, Britain and surrounding areas of those countries.

Mysterious Britain & Ireland is a resource and community dedicated to mysterious places, legends and folklore within the British and Irish Isles.

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14 million year-old lost world found in Antarctica

The world’s not flat and by now I am hoping that many people are starting to figure out that our past has quite a few hidden surprises when it comes to ancient civilizations. From a post made at Mysterytopia.com:

A lost world has been found in Antarctica, preserved just the way it was when it was frozen in time some 14 million years ago. The fossils of plants and animals high in the mountains is an extremely rare find in the continent, one that also gives a glimpse of a what could be there in a century or two as the planet warms. A team working in an ice-free region has discovered the trove of ancient life in what must have been the last traces of tundra on the interior of the southernmost continent before temperatures began to drop relentlessly.An abrupt and dramatic climate cooling of 8°C in 200,000 years forced the extinction of tundra plants and insects and brought interior Antarctica into a perpetual deep-freeze from which it has never emerged, though may do again as a result of climate change. An international team led by Prof David Marchant, at Boston University and Profs Allan Ashworth and Adam Lewis, at North Dakota State University, combined evidence from glaciers, from the preserved ecology, volcanic ashes and modelling to reveal the full extent of the big freeze in a part of Antarctica called the Dry Valleys. The new insight in the understanding of Antarctica’s climatic history, which saw it change from a climate like that of South Georgia to one similar to that seen today in Mars, is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “We’ve documented the timing and the magnitude of a tremendous change in Antarctic climate,” said Prof Marchant. “The fossil finds allow us to examine Antarctica as it existed just prior to climate cooling at 13.

9 million years ago. It is a unique window into the past. To study these deposits is akin to strolling across the Dry Valleys 14.1 million years ago.” The discovery of lake deposits with perfectly preserved fossils of mosses, diatoms and minute crustacea called ostracods is particularly exciting, noted Prof Lewis. “They are the first to be found even though scientific expeditions have been visiting the Dry Valleys since their discovery during the first Scott expedition in 1902-1903,” he said.

If you recall the finding long ago of a map that was supposed to have outlined landmasses and coastlines of the North Pole and so on, that was not supposed to have been known about due to the ice formations and the sheer age alone…

In 1929, a group of historians found an amazing map drawn on a gazelle skin.
Research showed that it was a genuine document drawn in 1513 by Piri Reis, a famous admiral of the Turkish fleet in the sixteenth century.
His passion was cartography. His high rank within the Turkish navy allowed him to have a privileged access to the Imperial Library of Constantinople.
The Turkish admiral admits in a series of notes on the map that he compiled and copied the data from a large number of source maps, some of which dated back to the fourth century BC or earlier.

The Piri Reis map shows the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and the northern coast of Antarctica. The northern coastline of Antarctica is perfectly detailed. The most puzzling however is not so much how Piri Reis managed to draw such an accurate map of the Antarctic region 300 years before it was discovered, but that the map shows the coastline under the ice. Geological evidence confirms that the latest date Queen Maud Land could have been charted in an ice-free state is 4000 BC

What do you think? Feel free to share your thoughts here.

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Strangeness from Virginia

Another one of those stories that will need a little more looking into, especially the Men In Black part (of which I’m going to be posting about soon):

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

Mothman and all the bizarre activity and high-strangeness that accompanied it back in the late 1960s put Point Pleasant on the paranormal map. Although things seem to have calmed down in Point Pleasant in recent decades, the Mothman event, chronicled by John Keel in his book The Mothman Prophecies (which later became a film), stands as one of the most peculiar and multi-layered episodes in the annals of paranormal phenomena. So many odd things were taking place that a list of them looks like an entire season of “The X-Files”:

• Sightings of the Mothman creature itself by more than than 100 witnesses – a tall, headless beast with glowing red eyes and huge bat-like wings.
• UFO sightings.
• Men-in-black appearances. Arriving black cars, these weird men mumble codes and bits of strange languages. They try to drink jelly and have difficulty using knives and forks.
• Phantom phone calls.
• Electrical disturbances to such devices as TVs, telephones and a police radio.
• Eerie predictions and spontaneous prophecies, some of which were oddly out of sync.
• Missing time.
• Animal mutilations.
• Mental telepathy.
• Strange coincidences and repeating numbers.
• A missing, possibly dead dog.

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Mysterious places and haunted places

There’s many, many places right on our own planet that for the most part defy explanation. Most are a mixed bag of unexplained places and haunted. While the temptation to go and check out these places might be powerful, I wouldn’t recommend doing so without first getting permission from the property owners. By not doing so, you’re inviting trouble and or a night or two in jail. Some of the haunted places are from right here from my own home state of NY (there’s a big list of them you can see the whole list state by state at the Shadowlands haunted places site) are:

Camden – The Old Harden House – On fourth Street is the old Charlie Harden House. Built in the mid 1800’s, Charlie Harden, a wealthy man, had this house built where he later died. There have been more than a few sightings of the ghost of Mr. Harden in the ornate foyer, and on the curving stair case connecting to it. Cold spots abound in the house even though extensive work to the work house was completed. The sounds of someone walking on the long curving stairs and landing are often heard mainly in the late afternoon. Children who have lived in the house tell stories of the nocturnal knockings on bedroom doors and walls, and of the bad dreams that accompany them.
Camillus – Brickyards – Walking through there on a clear night, there is said to be a gargoyle that comes out at midnight. Strange winds that only hit certain people & flash lights malfunctioning only to work when leaving the area.
Camillus – Tow Path Ghost – A drunken Canalman is said to have fallen in the water near the aqueduct. He was caught in his own line and dragged to death by his mule. A dark figure can be seen pacing the path leaving behind wet footprints.
Camillus – Walnut West Apartments – One apartment in this complex has been said to be haunted by a little girl. All of the tenants from this one apartment have moved out as fast as they have moved in. When mentioned even the managers of the complex agree that the place is haunted by a little girl. The complex is said to be built on what was once a farm and the little girl was believed to have been killed there.
Canadaigua – Victor – New Michigan Road – A woman and her new husband were traveling home along New Michigan Road when they had a carriage accident, that killed them both. The Lady in White is still searching for her husband along the road. She has been spotted during the full moon along the road.
Carthage – state street – It is believed that in the 1950’s a young married couple was killed in a drunk driving car accident, by 2 teenagers. they all died. at night it is said that the young couple run out in the road and steal young children because they had always wanted to have children. the 2 teenagers will take the children and return them to their parents.

Of particular interest to me are mysterious places that are found all over the world. Here’s a story I ran across on the Web found at strangmag.com that peaked my interest…

MEXICO’S ZONE OF SILENCE

by Scott Corrales

There exist a number of “accursed sites” on the surface of our planet. Some
of these locations are the sites of gravitational or atmospheric disturbances
that still remain unexplained by twentieth century science. Such anomalous areas
possess properties which interfere sporadically with humans and their equipment.
One area worthy of mention surrounds the Mediterranean island of Elba (famous for
being Napoleon’s first place of exile), and is the bane of maritime aviation in
the Mediterranean; another spot is Mt. Stredohori in Czechoslovakia, where an
unknown force drains car engines of power throughout the length of a 75-foot
stretch of road.

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The mount misery story

From time to time I come across a few interesting stories on the web that I will post here to share in the weirdness. This story is no exception. The story was originally published by Bill Knell whom owns the site www.ufoguy.com.

Mount Misery is the tallest point on Long Island and a place where several towns intersect. Millions of commuters pass it each day on the Long Island Expressway and Northern State Parkway as their journey to and from New York City, blissfully unaware of the rich and somewhat sorted history of the place. Just on the Suffolk side of the Nassau and Suffolk County line, Mannetto Hill Road is the western border, while Walt Whitman Road borders the Mount on the eastern side. Mount Misery begins just off of Old Country Road on its southern side and ends at Jericho Turnpike to the north. Although it’s only a little over a mile in distance end to end in any direction, a lot of history is packed into that mile and not all of it is the kind you would want to see taught in school.

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Stonehenge: Ancient Megalithic Site Holds Secret to Earth’s Turbulent Past

source:http://www.pr.com/press-release/89654

Computer systems analyst Dean Talboys has unlocked a previously overlooked aspect of an ancient megalithic site in Wiltshire, England, which indicates a major catastrophic event at the end of the last Ice Age 13,000 years ago that could have been caused by the rapid decline of the polar ice caps.

Malaga, Spain, June 11, 2008 –(PR.com)– By his own admission Mr. Talboys is a reluctant author on the subject of Stonehenge and only realized the original purpose of the site, comprised of stones weighing up to 40 tons, following a chance remark by his daughter. The book is the result of two years’ dedicated research during which Talboys uncovered more than one glaring oversight in the archeological analyses of its features.

To quote R. J. C. Atkinson, Professor of Archeology and author of Stonehenge: “Nothing could demonstrate better that one sees only what one is expecting to see …” which is why Talboys believes his interpretation of the ancient monuments’ purpose to be correct. This is not a flight of fancy, the product of one man’s imagination gone wild like so many other Stonehenge theories in the past. In “The Stonehenge Observatory” Talboys considers every feature in a complete re-evaluation of archeological excavations during the 20th century, and corroborates his conclusions with related scientific studies.

One of the most exciting aspects is the use of 3D models that were used to illustrate the book, and which have been made available online (see below). With “The Stonehenge Observatory” as a guide the reader is able to move anywhere within an accurate reproduction of the site, not only as it is now, but also as it would have appeared originally (which would otherwise only be possible with a time machine), and even witness an animated recreation of the destruction of the site to see how individual stones have been affected.

Incredibly this remarkable work may have gone unpublished had it not been for the Internet. Talboys comments: “Fortunately the Internet has done for the written word what Punk Rock did for music to the extent that today, anyone can express their beliefs to a worldwide audience without the prior approval of a mainstream distributor or one of their so-called “gatekeepers”. From the growing number of eBooks Mr. Talboys is not alone in his opinion of the publishing process.

Dean Talboys is a freelance systems analyst with over 25 years experience in the oil and retail sectors who now specializes in Internet browser applications. His book is available for immediate download at:
http://www.stonehengeobservatory.com

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